60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Strategy, Chess, Singleplayer, Turn-Based Strategy.
A chess roguelike where every run bends the rules. Build your army, wield powerful kings, and survive deadly variants on your way to proving a human can still beat the machine. Shape your build, outlast the chaos, and choose when to command the board yourself.
Regicide
Forget checkmate. Every capture scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder. Gather powerful floppy disks, rig your pieces (and theirs), and ignite cascading combos as you chase scores you have no right to reach.
Fritz Chess 14
FRITZ CHESS 14! The Ultimate Chess SoftwarePlay against FRITZ or play online at FRITZ CHESS 14 is the most comprehensive chess program in the world. Whether you are new to the game or a Grandmaster, FRITZ 14 is suitable for all skill levels!
Forget checkmate. Every capture scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder. Gather powerful floppy disks, rig your pieces (and theirs), and ignite cascading combos as you chase scores you have no right to reach.
Why similar: Chess 40% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 32.4% ★, Deckbuilding 16.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Indie 1.1%
FRITZ CHESS 14! The Ultimate Chess SoftwarePlay against FRITZ or play online at FRITZ CHESS 14 is the most comprehensive chess program in the world. Whether you are new to the game or a Grandmaster, FRITZ 14 is suitable for all skill levels!
A turn-based roguelike deckbuilder where your King is your strongest weapon. Play cards from your deck to drop units onto the battlefield and checkmate your opponent. Build your Deck, Upgrade your Ruler, and Claim the Throne.
Why similar: Chess 41.3% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.3% ★, Deckbuilding 13.6%, Tabletop 9.1%, Turn-Based Combat 4.7%
The next step in the evolution of chess tuned for more viable options, strategic interest, and years and years of expert play.
Why similar: Chess 72.5% ★, Tabletop 18.8%, Strategy 7.4%, Indie 1.3%
King's Hand is a turn-based, roguelike battler that fuses the strategy of chess with deckbuilding and a dash of chaos. Face increasingly challenging waves of tactical chess gameplay with a twist!
Why similar: Chess 64.7% ★, Deckbuilding 16%, Strategy 12.2%, PvE 5.4%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Collect cards, build decks, and battle fierce opponents in Top Check, a roguelike deckbuilder and card game inspired by the classic game of chess. With many unique pieces and abilities, only the best strategists will emerge victorious. Do you have what it takes to reach the top?
Why similar: Chess 44.2% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 28.3% ★, Deckbuilding 18%, Strategy 5.6%, PvE 3.1%
Try Boardfall for free! Progressively harder waves of enemies fall from the sky. Capture them to earn gold, and then purchase your own reinforcements to drop onto the board.
Why similar: Chess 43.1% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 21.8% ★, Deckbuilding 19.2%, Tabletop 9.6%, Strategy 5.6%
A roguelike chess strategy game where chess pieces evolve into powerful forms, gaining unique abilities and devastating synergies across ever-changing boards.
Why similar: Chess 45.1% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 29.9% ★, Deckbuilding 17.4%, Strategy 6.3%, Indie 0.7%
Start a rebellion and fight chess inspired turn-based combats in this roguelike deckbuilder. Upgrade your units and cards wisely. You will need it to progress through the districts of Daandria, the city where the tyrant king awaits you. Save this Empire in Decay.
Why similar: Chess 39.1% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 24.7% ★, Deckbuilding 17.1%, PvE 6.6%, Turn-Based Combat 6.5%
What if chess was invented by silly cosmic wizards? WizardChess is a turnbased roguelite where all the pieces have insane abilities that came to us in a shamanic vision. Fight chaotic-yet-tactical encounters with magic powers out of a fever dream! Defeat the FaeQueen and Claim Your Wish!
Why similar: Chess 38.9% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 23.8% ★, Deckbuilding 15.3%, Grid-Based Movement 10.2%, Turn-Based Combat 5.9%
Board Defenders is super-structuring the rules of the world’s most played game of all times - chess. A modern vision thrilling and fun fast action game, combining the pace of an arcade with the challenge of a logic puzzle - brain game, based on chess rules.
Why similar: Chess 48.3% ★, Tabletop 33.2%, Strategy 16.5%, Indie 2%
Passant is a chess roguelike that changes all the rules. Progress through challenging rounds while collecting powerful pieces and game-changing items to seize victory.
Why similar: Chess 65.9% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Deckbuilding 10.8%, Tabletop 6.8%, PvE 3.6%
Face the demon queen Lilith in high-stakes, asymmetrical chess matches. Capture all of her pieces, EXCEPT ONE! Carefully sacrifice your own pieces, use special items, and outthink Lilith’s unpredictable moves to gain the upper hand.
Why similar: Chess 66.7% ★, Tabletop 13.6%, PvE 9.5%, Strategy 8.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Battle Chess II brings new life into Chinese Chess. A game of strategy with animated battles to bring the game to life!
A chess game with 30+ pieces and deck building,
Why similar: Chess 50.4% ★, Deckbuilding 15.6%, Grid-Based Movement 8.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Tabletop 7.8%
A pirate themed chess puzzle game where strategically placing a limited number of pieces is key to breaking open all treasure chests and completing each level.
Why similar: Chess 60.5% ★, Strategy 16.6%, Tabletop 13.6%, Grid-Based Movement 7.6%, Indie 0.9%
The chess roguelike deckbuilder. Solo Chess is a cozy strategy game where you play chess-themed cards on a 3×3 grid, trigger piece effects, and earn points through clever combos. Build your deck with pets and food to conquer waves of unique battles.
Why similar: Chess 47.3% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.6% ★, Deckbuilding 18.4%, Strategy 5.9%, Singleplayer 0.7%
It took 2000 years for someone to make chess better!
Chess... chess never changes. How much can you do?! It's time for something new - a combination of chess and snake!
Why similar: Chess 66.2% ★, Tabletop 17.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Turn-Based Combat 4.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Balloon Chess is a roguelite take on chess, where you fight through waves of enemies and challenging boss matches as you ride an elevator to the top floor. Get powerful new abilities, imbue your balloons with passive effects, and build up a 'deck' of backup balloons to take on higher challenges.
Why similar: Chess 39.9% ★, Deckbuilding 29.4%, Tabletop 9.2%, Strategy 8.6%, PvE 6%
Customize your board with a host of new pieces. Start with an aggressive forward assault, Or perhaps a defensive fortress designed to weather the storm. Will you outwit, outmanoeuvre, or out-explode your way to victory?
Why similar: Chess 59.8% ★, Deckbuilding 26.9%, Strategy 9.3%, Turn-Based Combat 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
Why similar: Chess 45.8% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 18.4% ★, Deckbuilding 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 8.8%, Grid-Based Movement 6.7%
Gambonanza is a turn-based chess roguelike, set on a tiny board with higher stakes. Master tactical twists, invest your winnings and discover new rule-bending Gambits, tile and piece combinations. Face off against challenging bosses and get lost in all the ways you can break traditional chess!
Why similar: Chess 44.9% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 28.1% ★, Deckbuilding 20.1%, Strategy 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Chex is a strategic board game currently based on Gliński's hexagonal variant of chess. Players must use their pieces to capture their opponent's king. The hexagonal board introduces new challenges and opportunities.
Why similar: Chess 72.1% ★, Tabletop 20.3%, Strategy 7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Are you a chess master? Or a chess enthusiast? Maybe you just play chess from time to time. Whoever you are, Chessia is here for you.
Why similar: Chess 56.6% ★, Tabletop 32%, Strategy 9.6%, Indie 1.8%
A chess arcade game where you play against the strongest chess engine in the world.
Why similar: Chess 88.2% ★, Strategy 11%, Singleplayer 0.8%
A DECK-BUILDING ROGUELIKE CHESS game. Choose chess set, build deck as you go, bring the enemy king’s HP to 0 in as few turns, solve dilemma cases. Each run has 7 randomly generated hell floors, themed around the 7 deadly sins.
Why similar: Chess 49.1% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 32.2% ★, Deckbuilding 17.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
The most popular Chinese board game.
Why similar: Chess 56.4% ★, Tabletop 28.2%, Strategy 11.9%, Indie 3.5%
Pegture is a peg solitaire-themed roguelike, deck-building game. Build your deck, enhance your pegs, perform frenetic combos, beat bosses, reach the highest score and get the best peg solitaire experience.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 35.1% ★, Chess 30.2% ★, Deckbuilding 25.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Indie 1.1%
The chess roguelite. Play game-changing cards, bend the rules, save your Queen, and escape from the dungeon.
Why similar: Chess 53% ★, Deckbuilding 23.2%, Tabletop 10.8%, Turn-Based Combat 7%, Strategy 5.9%
A colorful chess roguelike! Engage in dopaminergic, cinematic strategy while you fulfill a chess power fantasy - your pieces gain abilities as you construct a juiced up roster capable of surviving the onslaught! Only - seven mysterious prismatic kings stand before you and the one true crown...
Why similar: Chess 70.5% ★, Tabletop 14.5%, Strategy 8.9%, PvE 5.2%, Indie 0.5%
It took 2,000 years for someone to make chess better! The most challenging game on earth comes to life in Battle Chess. An entire medieval world at war is reflected on the checkered field. Everyone who's ever had a knight take a pawn has seen that capture as more than one piece replacing another on the board.
Crounds is a online PvP chess roguelike where you draft game breaking upgrades to create devastating combos and disrupt your opponents plans. After key points in the game players take turns to pick upgrades that define their strategy.
Why similar: Chess 61.3% ★, Deckbuilding 15.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Tabletop 8.7%, Turn-Based Combat 4%
A dice-building roguelike where you shape a 25-dice board to unleash powerful chained attacks.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 50.7% ★, Deckbuilding 34.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Combine 100's of unique emoji based tokens in this roguelike merge-builder! Find ever more creative combinations of Tokens and Powers to fuse unique strategies and beat this ever more challenging twist on rogue-likes, puzzlers and arcadey games!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 46.1% ★, Deckbuilding 30.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Turn-Based Combat 5.8%, Grid-Based Movement 5.6%
Caîssa Board is a graphical chess user interface that is evolving toward becoming an online chess club.
Why similar: Chess 69.3% ★, Tabletop 18.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A tactical tower defense roguelike game where chess pieces defend against waves from other games. Place strategic pieces, play powerful cards, build synergistic decks, and survive procedurally generated runs of increasing difficulty.
Why similar: Chess 51.7% ★, Deckbuilding 29.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Grid-Based Movement 4.9%, PvE 2.9%
GoblinChess is a new type of chess game where we introduce ten different magical cards to the gameplay, and some chaos if you want. You can play online or against the built in robot.
Why similar: Chess 62.9% ★, Tabletop 15.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 6.2%, Indie 0.7%
King's Gambit is a turn-based co-op roguelike deckbuilder with a chess twist! Unlock powerful card upgrades to enhance your weapons and spells. Master 18 characters, each with unique abilities - Hurl knives, brew potions, and summon spectral spiders as you battle chess-pieces and bosses!
Why similar: Chess 39.5% ★, Roguelike Deckbuilder 30% ★, Tabletop 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 7%, Strategy 6.8%
Chess Hunt is a rogue-like puzzle game. Use your cards to move your character and try to score as many points as possible by collecting matching chess pieces. Build your own deck and play endlessly!
Why similar: Chess 45.2% ★, Deckbuilding 22.8%, Tabletop 17%, Grid-Based Movement 13.1%, Indie 1.2%
Cute Chess is all the fun of regular chess but with cute little characters, scene designs and music to make the game even more fun. Improve your chess skills by practising against computers with a range of different difficulties or take your skills online and compete against friends.
Why similar: Chess 71.5% ★, Tabletop 15.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Experience the beloved game of chess in ways never before seen! Starting with just your King and a Pawn, you’ll strategically assemble your board with pieces of your choice. But be warned, you’ll be facing off against boards uniquely crafted by other players, there’s no telling what to expect!
Why similar: Chess 71.7% ★, Tabletop 14.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Turn-Based Combat 3.6%, Indie 0.7%
A strategic rogue-lite puzzle game where you collect and place Tetris-style pieces to defeat fantasy villains, unlock characters and upgrades, and build powerful runs. Focused on replayability, quick sessions, and meaningful strategic choices.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 51.7% ★, Deckbuilding 33.7%, Strategy 11.9%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%
In the familiar deck-building and roguelike genres, create your own unique combinations of magic. Even a single card can produce completely different outcomes depending on the combination. Even if it seems like a simple hand, your choices can dramatically change the moment.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 38.7% ★, Deckbuilding 35.1%, Strategy 16.5%, PvE 4%, Turn-Based Combat 3.6%
3D chess variants + Mana Chess deckbuilding. Weird boards, strange pieces, puzzles and mini-games — and a free demo available now.
Why similar: Chess 57% ★, Deckbuilding 24.1%, Grid-Based Movement 10.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A two-player online (choose an opponent from your Steam friends list) Chess, in an edgeless landscape called "Kingland", with upgrades.
A new outlook on the classic strategy game, battle your way to winning.
Why similar: Chess 73.6% ★, Strategy 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 11.3%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A new patch just dropped for the ancient game of Chess. The Definitive Edition adds new pieces, chaotic cards, and modernized rules. Reshape the board and bring down the enemy Kings, heirs, and pretenders. Master the first major update in centuries.
Why similar: Chess 73.4% ★, Strategy 13%, Tabletop 12.7%, Indie 0.9%
Crawl through the infernal checkerboards. Plan your moves, survive demonic hordes, collect unholy weapons, and descend ever deeper to reclaim your soul — but beware: in this damned game, the rules of chess have been... corrupted. Can you reach the PAWNDEMONIUM ?
Why similar: Chess 67.6% ★, Grid-Based Movement 10.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Turn-Based Combat 10.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
A lightning-fast roguelike deckbuilding auto-battler by Jason Rohrer. Puts the Chess back in "auto chess".
Why similar: Chess 58.3% ★, Deckbuilding 30.4%, Strategy 10.1%, Indie 0.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
A unique chess-RPG-puzzle hybrid set inside a corrupted 90s computer. Battle an evil chess invasion across 24 handcrafted levels, purge glitched worlds and bosses, and restore the system. Minimal Bauhaus visuals and a deep drone soundtrack shape a tense, atmospheric journey.
Why similar: Chess 70.8% ★, Strategy 12.4%, Turn-Based Combat 9.5%, Grid-Based Movement 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
ChessRPG is a revisited chess game in pixel art. Each player chooses a medieval fantasy people, gaining access to pieces with various characteristics that turn every match into a fresh tactical battle.
Why similar: Chess 66.2% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Tabletop 10%, Grid-Based Movement 7.5%, Turn-Based Combat 4.5%
Use two decks of cards to serve food to your customers during the day! Then fight them off when they turn to monsters at night in this fun and unique deckbuilding roguelike!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 44.5% ★, Deckbuilding 28.9%, Strategy 11.4%, Turn-Based Combat 10.4%, PvE 3.7%
Blindfold Chess is a minimalist strategy game where you play chess entirely from memory. Practice with blindfold exercises, improve your visualization, and battle Stockfish AI or online players without ever seeing the board.
Why similar: Chess 69.8% ★, Tabletop 16.4%, Strategy 12.5%, Indie 0.9%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Play with living, battling characters! Combat Chess takes the basic chess game and adds an imaginative element for players. Beautifully done in rendered 3D graphics, Combat Chess adds stunning animation sequences during gameplay.
Why similar: Chess 73.2% ★, Tabletop 12.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Turn-Based Combat 5.2%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Circadian Dice is a game inspired by single-player deck-building games, but instead of upgrading a deck, you build up a set of dice! Use 10 different heroes and 60 game-warping relics to take on 13 hand-crafted scenarios, in runs that take 10-30 minutes. Lots of secrets and unlocks to discover!
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 49% ★, Deckbuilding 34.9%, Strategy 8.8%, Turn-Based Combat 6.1%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Save the forest in this improved version of chess with new boards with obstacles and power-ups.
Why similar: Chess 70.5% ★, Tabletop 14.4%, Strategy 9.1%, PvE 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Greed Realm is a Roguelike Deckbuilder fused with Monopoly elements. As Priestess Gladis, enter the "Soul Tree" to cure your mother. Master deck building, dice manipulation, and backpack management to survive the gap between desire and nightmare.
Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 40.2% ★, Deckbuilding 28.9%, Tabletop 15.3%, Turn-Based Combat 9.9%, Strategy 4.5%
